Warning: Images in the video above are graphic An Arkansas woman is living a nightmare that began when she went to the hospital to treat a spider bite."I don't want to be on pain meds for the rest of my life," Kiara Boulton told WREG. "I'm now on dialysis because of a spider bite."Boulton recently stepped out of the shower at her West Memphis home and noticed a bump on her foot. She showed her primary care physician who prescribed her medicine, but it didn't get better, and she began to suspect why."I was seeing my little cousins off to prom and their dad was like, 'Why are you limping? What's going on?' So I showed him my foot and said 'I think I got bit by a spider.' And he's like, 'Well what kind do you think it is?' And I said, 'a brown recluse,'" she recalled.Three days after suffering the bite, her toe turned black. Doctors said it had to be amputated. The infection continued to spread and her leg had to be amputated above the knee. "Three kids, Kiara, three," she said she told herself. "God wouldn't have let you have them if you weren't supposed to be here for them. Fight through this."Boulton has now undergone seven surgeries. She has made her apartment management aware of the spiders but nothing has been done.

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An Arkansas woman is living a nightmare that began when she went to the hospital to treat a spider bite.

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"I don't want to be on pain meds for the rest of my life," Kiara Boulton told WREG. "I'm now on dialysis because of a spider bite."

Boulton recently stepped out of the shower at her West Memphis home and noticed a bump on her foot. She showed her primary care physician who prescribed her medicine, but it didn't get better, and she began to suspect why.

"I was seeing my little cousins off to prom and their dad was like, 'Why are you limping? What's going on?' So I showed him my foot and said 'I think I got bit by a spider.' And he's like, 'Well what kind do you think it is?' And I said, 'a brown recluse,'" she recalled.

Three days after suffering the bite, her toe turned black. Doctors said it had to be amputated.

The infection continued to spread and her leg had to be amputated above the knee.

"Three kids, Kiara, three," she said she told herself. "God wouldn't have let you have them if you weren't supposed to be here for them. Fight through this."

Boulton has now undergone seven surgeries. She has made her apartment management aware of the spiders but nothing has been done.